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About Me

I am Thomas Morgner, the software architect for the Pentaho Reporting project at Pentaho. I joined the project over 10 years ago and have seen it grow from a small embedded engine into a enterprise class reporting system that is widely deployed in large and small enterprises around the world.

Pentaho Reporting – Tips, Tricks and useful knowledge

Pentaho Reporting is a suite of open-source reporting tools which allows you to create relational and analytical reports from a wide range of data-sources. The Pentaho Reporting Engine is able to create PDF, Excel, HTML, Text, Rich-Text-File and XML and CSV outputs of your data. An easy to learn formula language similar to the one used in Excel helps you to create more dynamic reports exactly the way you want them. And an open architecture and powerful API and extension points ensures that this system grows with your requirements.

Stable Release

Pentaho Reporting 5.1

This release provides an automatic lightning-fast export mode for bulk-data reports (CSV, Excel, RTF and Streaming HTML), has experimental support for Arabic Text and stabilizes the crosstab rendering for large scale crosstabs that span hundreds of pages.

Previous Release

Pentaho Reporting 5.0.1

Development Version

Pentaho Reporting 5.2.0

This is an unstable developer version, please do not use it for production. The release is scheduled for the October 2014 along with the Pentaho-BI-Server 5.2.

The release will improve the performance of database access in Pentaho Reporting and Interactive Reporting and will introduce a way to edit existing crosstab reports more easily in Pentaho Report Designer.